Plastic trowels!!!!!

Cockney1 said:
Mate I really don’t want to be rude, but after 17yrs of spreading I can’t believe that you can’t tell the difference between a ss trowel and a carbon one. :tonto:
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Well I use them both and they both achieve the same outcome. Are you aware that SS is the same carbon steel with chromium added, which prevents it rusting when it's surface is highly polished?

Tell me, genuinely, how do you find they differ in use?
 
Wezly said:
Well I use them both and they both achieve the same outcome. Are you aware that SS is the same carbon steel with chromium added, which prevents it rusting when it's surface is highly polished?

Tell me, genuinely, how do you find they differ in use?
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They wear differently for a start off, you could use a carbon for surgery, when it's well worn. SS trowels never get there and they are stiffer where the CS flexes more over time. CS trowels feel lighter to me in the hand and on the plaster.
 
The problem is information over load . To many opinions and different ways of finishing plaster , Everyone is thinking to hard about a very simple job and getting confusion about what is wright and what is wrong , What is the right trowel against the constant bullshit and peoples own idea of how things should be done . I think some people need to log off from here for a while and go back to how they did thing s when life was simpler and we did not have the broad range of opinion that has led to so much anxiety in how to skim a fukin wall . Just saying.
 
beader said:
The problem is information over load . To many opinions and different ways of finishing plaster , Everyone is thinking to hard about a very simple job and getting confusion about what is wright and what is wrong , What is the right trowel against the constant bullshit and peoples own idea of how things should be done . I think some people need to log off from here for a while and go back to how they did thing s when life was simpler and we did not have the broad range of opinion that has led to so much anxiety in how to skim a fukin wall . Just saying.
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100 percent nail on head.











Logging of lol





But seriously. I gone back to basics( still give it a flick with plastic.at end ) but enjoying work again and less time on wall
 
beader said:
The problem is information over load . To many opinions and different ways of finishing plaster , Everyone is thinking to hard about a very simple job and getting confusion about what is wright and what is wrong , What is the right trowel against the constant bullshit and peoples own idea of how things should be done . I think some people need to log off from here for a while and go back to how they did thing s when life was simpler and we did not have the broad range of opinion that has led to so much anxiety in how to skim a fukin wall . Just saying.
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Your missing my point after 25years it now seems that i cant leave a wall to look "Right" at the dried stage!

Perfect wet, perfect painted but shite dry.

Water, no water so if im missing something then i want to know!
 
zombie said:
Your missing my point after 25years it now seems that i cant leave a wall to look "Right" at the dried stage!

Perfect wet, perfect painted but shite dry.

Water, no water so if im missing something then i want to know!
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Sussed your problem
















You've developed a conscience
 
Wezly said:
Well I use them both and they both achieve the same outcome. Are you aware that SS is the same carbon steel with chromium added, which prevents it rusting when it's surface is highly polished?

Tell me, genuinely, how do you find they differ in use?
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Bought this 95 for some strange reason I used it and then dumped it for an SS and it sat in the garage for year's until reading threads on here about carbon trowels.
Plastic trowels!!!!!
 
zombie said:
Your missing my point after 25years it now seems that i cant leave a wall to look "Right" at the dried stage!

Perfect wet, perfect painted but shite dry.

Water, no water so if im missing something then i want to know!
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I agree it is a lot harder than it use to be... I did a job last year and i offered to paint it as I was not convinced it was going to come out nice... well it came out perfect
 
zombie said:
Your missing my point after 25years it now seems that i cant leave a wall to look "Right" at the dried stage!

Perfect wet, perfect painted but shite dry.

Water, no water so if im missing something then i want to know!
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What you are missing is perspective . FFS get a grip. it is either a pass or a fail . If you do a good job and everyone is happy then that is a pass . Collect your money and move on . We can always find fault with our work and even easy'r in another persons' but at the end of the day perfection can never be reached . so why beat yourself up, What we do is plaster walls not send people into space so if you get a few slack marks or water stains so what . Life really is to short . Life will go on no matter what trowel you use etc so as long as you do the wright thing at the wright time and you lead a good life just relax . Just saying .
 
beader said:
What you are missing is perspective . FFS get a grip. it is either a pass or a fail . If you do a good job and everyone is happy then that is a pass . Collect your money and move on . We can always find fault with our work and even easy'r in another persons' but at the end of the day perfection can never be reached . so why beat yourself up, What we do is plaster walls not send people into space so if you get a few slack marks or water stains so what . Life really is to short . Life will go on no matter what trowel you use etc so as long as you do the wright thing at the wright time and you lead a good life just relax . Just saying .
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Still missing my point zero slacks zero water marks zero blebs etc etc etc but cloudy as shite to look at!!!!
 
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